Posts by category

• Category: Christian Life
  • The Celebration of One’s Angel Day
  • Discerning the Will of God
  • The Spiritual Father
  • Is it necessary to have a spiritual father? Can one change their spiritual father?
  • What does the common phrase “we crucify Christ with our sins” mean?
  • It is Customary. -Bp Innokenty (Usov)
  • Foundations of Christian Aesthetics. -Kiril Mikhailov
  • Why do we call ourselves servants of God?
  • The Degrees of Moral Condition. -Bp. Innokenty (Usov)
  • On Monasticism
  • On Guardian Angels
  • A Practical Guide For Christians
  • What is a tithe, and to whom should it be given?
  • The Tradition of Church-Financial Relations: Biblical Origins and Contemporary Realities 
  • Does the Church have any requirements or recommendations regarding a Christian’s health?
  • What is forbidden for an Old Believer and why? (e.g., smoking, drunkenness, profanity, shaving the beard, playing cards, working in sinful industries like tobacco or cosmetics, having abortions, dancing, wearing makeup, painting nails, women wearing pants or immodest clothing, cutting or styling hair, dyeing hair, etc.)
  • What should a Christian read or watch to avoid feeding the passions and to preserve the purity of the soul? What literature would you recommend for a Christian, especially considering the lack of free time?
  • What should one do if Old Believers around you, including clergy, behave unchristianly, treat you coldly, and not in the way you would like? How can one cope with this, explain it to oneself, and continue attending this community and interacting with these fellow believers (edinovertsy)?
  • Why do Old Believers celebrate name days instead of birthdays?
  • Can Old Believers sit at the same table with heretics, eat from the same dishes, and participate in joint prayer?
  • Is it sinful to live in the world, in cities? Should we flee from the world to forests and mountains?
  • Can a Christian attend theaters, concerts, movies, and other cultural or entertainment events?
  • What is an ideal Christian in today’s world, a follower of Christ?
  • Traditional Handiwork
  • Why is the surrounding world considered hostile to Christians (“the prince of this world is Satan”)? What is harmful and corrupt in modern society?
  • On Pets
  • What does Christian life include? What should be observed, and which Sacraments should one participate in?
  • How should one interact with unbelievers in a group setting (at school, university, or work)?
  • Is it permissible to visit cafeterias, cafés, or restaurants? Should one pray openly before and after meals and make the sign of the cross?
  • Every Christian is called to bring the light of Christ’s teaching into the world. How can an ordinary, everyday Christian fulfill this in the modern world?
  • Church Service and Education
  • On the Combination of Spiritual Service and Secular Concerns
  • What does the Gospel phrase “The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force” mean?
  • Category: Clothing
    • Clothing and Spirituality
    • The Clothing of a Christian
    • On Christian Dress
  • Category: Culture of Reading
    • Lives of the Saints: Why Do People Stop Reading Them?
    • On Nachotnichestvo
    • Literature of Ancient Rus’: Genre Characteristics
    • History of Old Believer Literature
    • On the Benefit of Book Reading. Met. Korniliy (Titov)
  • Category: Death
    • The Torment of Hades. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
    • The Forty-Day Toll Houses of the Soul After Death
    • Sorokoust
    • The Third, Ninth, and Fortieth Day…
    • At the Memorial Meal
    • When and How to Arrange the Memorial Meal
    • Helping Departed Loved Ones — Our Drawing Near to God
    • Why did the Lord create hellish torments? Isn’t this unmerciful? The teaching about eternal torment is addressed to all believers, not just evildoers, yet most people do not commit grave sins. How does it apply to them?
    • What awaits a person after death?
    • What must a Christian observe to be deemed worthy of a Christian burial with a priest and commemoration for the departed during the liturgy?
    • Almsgiving in Memory of the Departed
    • Ancestral Saturdays
  • Category: Family Roles
    • The Family as a Supreme Value
    • The Church’s View on the Role of the Family in Society
    • Old Believer Familialism. -K. Mikhailov
    • How to Save a Failed Marriage
    • On Building a Happy Marriage
    • How to Choose a Spouse
    • What hierarchy of values should a Christian family have?
    • Family Roles of Men and Women
    • On Spiritual Kinship
    • Domostroy
    • Category: Men
      • Why Do Old Believers Wear Beards?
      • On Beard-Shaving
      • How to Be Saved in the World. Life in the Family. -Bp. Mikhail (Semyonov)
      • On Man Being the Head of the Woman
      • Why is a man prohibited from shaving his beard?
    • Category: Parenting
      • How to Be Saved in the World. Life in the Family: Children. -Bp. Mikhail (Semyonov)
      • How to Choose a Baby Name
    • Category: Women
      • How to Be Saved in the World. Life in the Family. The Wife. -Bp. Mikhail (Semyonov)
      • On Cosmetics
      • On the Obedience of the Wife
      • Why does a woman hold such a “humble” position?
      • What is the role and mission of a woman in the family?
      • Why should a married woman cover her head?
  • Category: Fasting & Feasts
    • Category: General Fasting
      • What Is Fasting? -Bp. Mikhail (Semyonov)
      • On Voluntary Fasts
      • The Meaning of Christian Fasting
      • Why is fasting necessary? How should a Christian behave during fasting?
      • At what age should a child begin observing the fast?
      • Children’s Fasting
      • “Bring My Soul Out of Prison…” – Bishop Mikhail (Semyonov) 
    • Category: Great Fast
      • “If due to some weakness one happens to break the fast, one should not lose heart or abandon it altogether”
      • On the Great Fast
      • A Fast Pleasing unto God. -Bp. Mikhail (Semyonov)
    • Category: Paschal Recipes
      • Farmer Cheese Kulich (Pascha Bread)
  • Category: Illness
    • On the Fight Against Sinful Viruses and More
    • A Homily by Archdeacon Alexander Govorov on Healing from Illnesses
    • What should a Christian do if their loved one is gravely ill and near death?
  • Category: Prayer
    • Why is it necessary to pray?
    • Why Pray to Saints? Can’t We Pray Directly to God Without “Intermediaries”?
    • Is it permissible to pray for unbaptized or non-Orthodox relatives, for example, those from the ROC?
    • On Prayer for the Non-Orthodox
    • How to Pray at Home
    • The Lestovka
    • The Seven-Bow Beginning as a Means to Approach Prayer
    • Standing in Prayer
    • On Prayer. -Priest Ioann Sevastyanov
  • Category: Sign of the Cross
    • Let Us Rest at the Foot of the Cross. -Bp. Mikhail (Semyonov)
    • Christianity — the Religion of Bearing the Cross. -Bp. Mikhail (Semyonov)
    • On How Synodal Theologians and Religious Figures Fought Against the Two-Finger Sign of the Cross
    • The Sign of the Cross. -F.E. Melnikov
    • “Even as Christ Himself…” The Two-Finger Sign of the Cross and the “Pinch”: Two Consciousnesses. -George Neminuschy
    • Why do Old Believers make the sign of the cross with two fingers?
    • Does the Stoglav Council command us to place our hand on our chest or naval?
    • When did the two-finger sign of the cross and the veneration of the eight-pointed cross originate?
  • Category: Spirituality
    • On the Urge for Monasticism
    • Not Peace, But a Sword! On the Warfare of the Orthodox Church of Christ Since Ancient Times as a Condition of Its Life
  • Category: Vices
    • How Can One See His Own Sins?
    • What are the Vices and Passions in a Person, and How Can One Combat Them?
    • Category: Blasphemy
      • What constitutes the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, and why will it not be forgiven either in this age or the one to come?
    • Category: Contempt
      • Dealing With Unexplained Dislike For Someone
    • Category: Delusion
      • On Asceticism and Delusion
    • Category: Modernity
      • Precepts of the Ancients
      • On Much-Knowledge and Idle Curiosity
      • Old Believers and Contemporary Old Believers.
    • Category: Self-Justification
      • Everyone Does It. – Innokenty Usov
    • Category: Superstition
      • Superstition — A Sign of Spiritual Ignorance. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
  • Category: Virtues
    • What is Conscience in a Person, and How Can One Learn to Hear it?
    • What is the Ideal Moral Image of a Christian?
    • What Are the Main Christian Commandments and Virtues?
    • Category: Faith
      • Worse Than Africans
      • Faith and Identity
    • Category: Fear of God
      • Homily 39. On the Fear of God. -St. Symeon the New Theologian
      • On the Fear of God. -Abba Dorotheos
      • What is the Fear of God?
    • Category: Happiness
      • How Can One Be Happy, Even In Difficult Circumstances?
      • Where Do I Find Happiness?
    • Category: Love
      • Christian Friendship
      • Attention to One’s Neighbor
    • Category: Peace
      • Spiritual Conditions of Peace
    • Category: Repentance
      • Homily on Repentance, or Concerning the Fact That One Ought Not Despair of Salvation
      • The Feat of Repentance
      • Word on Repentance. -Andrei Denisov
    • Category: Temperance
      • On Temperance
    • Category: Wisdom
      • On Psychological Stability
• Category: Faith & Doctrine
  • What about those outside the true Church? Will they all perish?
  • Can one not be Orthodox and simply believe in God in their soul?
  • Category: Apologetics & Polemics
    • Why Are Rituals Necessary? -Bp. Mikhail (Semyonov)
    • The Essence of Ritual. -I. Kirillov
    • The Christian’s Attitude Toward People of Other Faiths
    • Category: New Believers (Nikonians)
      • A Few Words About the “Equal Honor” of the Rites. -V. Buzhinsky
      • In the Snares of Heresies and Anathemas. -F.E. Melnikov
      • The Church Destroyer. -Bishop Mikhail Semyonov
      • Why is the new rite considered heresy?
      • Do Old Believers and New Ritualists share the same faith?
      • Are Seraphim of Sarov and Matrona of Moscow not saints in the Old Believer tradition? How can that be? I want to convert to the Old Faith, but these saints are very dear to my heart.
      • How does one correctly transition from the New Rite Church to the Old Rite Church? What is the process, what should one know, and from which sins (such as smoking) should one abstain?
      • What was the cause of the schism in the Russian Church in the 17th century?
      • A Time to Gather Stones. -Viktor Buzhinsky
      • Darkening. -Viktor Buzhinsky
      • The Log House Has Not Burned Down – It is Still Burning.
    • Category: Other Faiths
      • Category: Baptists
        • On the Baptists. The Historical Origin of the Baptists
        • On the Baptists: A Brief Guide for Engaging in Conversation with Baptist Sectarians
        • On Holy Tradition
        • On the Baptism of Children
      • Category: Seventh-Day Adventists
        • Why Do Christians Celebrate Sunday Instead of Saturday? (A Response to Seventh-day Adventists)
  • Category: Canons and Church Law
    • Sources of Church Canons in Ancient Orthodoxy
    • In What Cases One May Not Enter the Church or Partake of Holy Things
    • Category: Canons
      • Short Nomokanon of Arseny Uralsky
    • Category: Rules of Piety
      • The Blessing
      • Rules of Christian Life
  • Category: Core Doctrines
    • What Is a Dogma? What Dogmas Exist in Christianity?
    • Are Dogmas Necessary? -Bishop Mikhail (Semyonov)
    • Catechetical Exposition on the Symbol of Faith
    • Category: End Times & Antichrist
      • Antichrist: The Signs Preceding the Second Coming of Christ
    • Category: Faith & Works
      • What do the apostolic words “faith without works is dead” mean? What works are referred to here?
      • How can one cultivate and strengthen their faith?
      • Faith and Works. -John Raspopin
    • Category: Grace
      • Word on Law and Grace. -St. Ilarion
      • The Doctrine of Grace in the Works of Early Christian Writers. -R. Atorin
    • Category: Holy Tradition
      • Introductory Discourse on Holy Tradition. -Bishop Mikhail (Semyonov)
    • Category: Holy Trinity
      • Understanding the Holy Trinity
    • Category: Philosophy
      • Traditional Orthodox Philosophy: A General Outline. -K. Mikhailov
      • Old Believer Philosophy: The Triumph of the Spirit and the Metaphysics of Freedom. -R. Atorin
    • Category: Redemption
      • The Death of Jesus Christ and Redemption. -Bp Mikhail (Semyonov)
    • Category: Salvation
      • Patristic Soteriology. -J. Raspopin
      • What is the purpose of human life? Why were we created and born?
• Category: Liturgics
  • Category: Books & Chant
    • Category: Liturgical Books
      • The Flowery Triode
    • Category: Znamenny Chant
      • Znamenny Chant: Pages from History
      • Old Believer Chant
  • Category: Divine Services
    • Why is it necessary to attend church? Why is personal prayer at home not enough? Why are services so long and held so often (sometimes several times a week)?
    • Homily by Priest Sergiy Lisurenko on the Importance of Attending Church Services
    • Category: Compline
      • About the Service of the Pavechernitsa (Compline)
    • Category: Divine Liturgy
      • Preparing Leaven and Dough for Prosphora
      • The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
      • The Cherubic Hymn and Its Meaning
      • On Commemoration Slips at the Liturgy
    • Category: Funerary Rites
      • How should we commemorate the departed? What memorial services are observed throughout the year?
      • About Those Deprived of Church Burial
      • What To Do For A Christian That Has Just Died
      • The Custom of Washing the Body
      • Procession with the Coffin to the Grave and Burial
      • Placing the Body in the Coffin
      • On Bringing the Departed into the Church
      • Grave Arrangement
      • Farewell to the Departed
      • Commemorative Memorial Slips (For the Departed)
      • Clothing of the Deceased
      • The Absolution Certificate
      • The “Singing-Off” (Funeral Service)
      • A Few Words on Burial
    • Category: Midnight Office
      • The Midnight Office
    • Category: Morning Office
      • About the Morning Office. (Matins)
    • Category: Vespers
      • Order of Sunday Vespers Without a Priest
      • About Vespers
  • Category: Liturgical Articles
    • The Liturgical Cycle and Consecrated Time in Christian Culture
    • Bows to the Ground and Waist Bows
    • The Kissing of Icons and the Gospel
    • Category: Candles
      • On the Lighting of Candles and Prayer
      • How to Light Candles in Church
  • Category: Liturgical Year
    • Category: Calendar
      • Category: April
        • April 18. Venerable Serapion of Cheremshan
        • April 14. The Commemoration of the Pustozersk Martyrs
        • April 12. Life of Saint Afanasia of Aegina
        • April 11. The Life of Saint Varsonophy, Bishop of Tver
        • April 11. The Life of Saint Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum and Hieromartyr
        • April 3. Bishop Pavel of Kolomna: 366 Years Since His Martyrdom. -Dimitry Urushev
        • April 3. Hieromartyr Pavel, Bishop of Kolomna
      • Category: December
        • Can Old Believers set up a Christmas tree for Christmas and New Year?
      • Category: February
        • February 24. The 1st and 2nd Finding of the Honorable Head of the Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord, John
      • Category: January
        • January 1. The Commemoration of St. Basil the Great
      • Category: July
        • July 19. On the Life of the Venerable Macrina, Sister of Basil the Great. -St. Gregory of Nyssa
      • Category: June
        • June 22. Holy Hieromartyr Evseviy, Bishop of Samosata.
        • June 21. Holy Martyr Iulian of Tarsus
        • June 20. Hieromartyr Mefodiy, Bishop of Patara.
        • June 19. Holy Apostle Iuda.
        • June 18. Martyrs Feodor and Luka.
        • June 17. Martyrs Manuil, Saveliy, and Ismail.
        • June 16. Tikhon of Amafunt.
        • June 15. Holy Prophet Amos.
        • June 14. Holy Prophet Elisey.
      • Category: March
        • March 25. The Annunciation of the Most Holy Mother of God
        • March 25. On the Feast of the Annunciation. -Bp. Mikhail (Semyonov)
        • March 25. Homily on the Annunciation of Our Most Holy Maiden God-bearer and Ever-Virgin Mary. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
        • March 9. The Commemoration of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
        • March 8. Saint Athanasius (Afanasiy) of Saratov
      • Category: May
        • May 9. The Translation of the Honorable Relics of Saint Nikola the Wonderworker
        • May 3. The Shepherd of Persecuted Christians: Venerable Feodosiy of Vetka
        • May 2. The Fool-for-Christ Monk-Martyr: Venerable Avraamy, Fool-for-Christ for the Sake of Christ
        • May 14. Holy Righteous Isidor of Kerzhenets (of Kozmodemyansk)
        • May 8. He Who Escaped the Ruined Monastery: Venerable Arseniy of Kerzhenets
        • May 8. The Commemoration of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian
      • Category: November
        • November 21. The Entry of the Most Holy God-bearer Into the Temple
      • Category: September
        • September 4. Icon of the God-bearer “The Burning Bush”
    • Category: Great Lent
      • The Sacred Thread of the Church’s Lessons in the Weeks Leading to Great Lent. -Bp. Mikhail (Semyonov)
      • The Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian. -Bp. Mikhail (Semyonov)
      • On the Holy Forty Days (Great Fast). -Abba Dorotheos
      • On the Calculation of the Days of Great Lent
      • Category: 1st Week
        • Friday of the First Week. A Homily of St. Photios, Patriarch of Constantinople
        • The First Sunday of Great Lent: The Commemoration of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 15. On the First Sunday of Lent.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 14. Saturday of the First Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 13. Friday of the First Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 12. Thursday of the First Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 11. Wednesday of the First Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 10. Tuesday of the First Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 9. Monday of the First Week.
        • Homily for the First Sunday of Great Lent: On the Predestination of Our Salvation. Met. Korniliy (Titov)
        • Homily for the Sunday of Orthodoxy. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
      • Category: 2nd Week
        • The Appearance of the Feodorovskaya Icon of the Most Holy God-bearer
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 24. Second Sunday of Lent
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 23. Saturday of the Second Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 22. Friday of the Second Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 21. Thursday of the Second Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 20. Wednesday of the Second Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 19. Tuesday of the Second Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 18. Tuesday of the Second Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 16. Monday of the Second Week.
        • Homily for the 2nd Sunday of the Great Fast. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
      • Category: 3rd Week
        • About the Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 33. Third Sunday of Lent.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 32. Saturday of the Third Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 31. Friday of the Third Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 30. Friday of the Third Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 29. Thursday of the Third Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 28. Wednesday of the Third Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 27. Tuesday of the Third Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 26. Tuesday of the Third Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 25. Monday of the Third Week.
        • Homily for the Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
      • Category: 4th Week
        • The Sunday of St. John of the Ladder, the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent
        • Step by Step, Upward. -Bp. Mikhail (Semyonov)
        • On the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent. -Bp. Mikhail (Semyonov)
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 43. Fourth Sunday of Lent.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 42. Saturday of the Fourth Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 41. Saturday of the Fourth Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 40. Friday of the Fourth Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 39. Thursday of the Fourth Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 38. Thursday of the Fourth Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 37. Wednesday of the Fourth Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 36. Tuesday of the Fourth Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 35. Tuesday of the Fourth Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 34. Monday of the Fourth Week.
        • Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent, in Commemoration of St. John of the Ladder. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
        • Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
      • Category: 5th Week
        • The Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt, Fifth Sunday of Great Lent.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 51. Fifth Sunday of Lent.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 50. Saturday of the Fifth Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 49. Friday of the Fifth Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 48. Thursday of the Fifth Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 46. Wednesday of the Fifth Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 46. Tuesday of the Fifth Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 45. Tuesday of the Fifth Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 44. Monday of the Fifth Week.
        • Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Great Lent. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
      • Category: 6th Week
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 58. Saturday of the Sixth Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 57. Friday of the Sixth Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 56. Thursday of the Sixth Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 55. Wednesday of the Sixth Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 54. Wednesday of the Sixth Week. On the Lord’s Prayer.
        • Golden Mouth. Homily 53. Tuesday of the Sixth Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 52. Monday of the Sixth Week.
      • Category: Cheesefare
        • Homily on Forgiveness Sunday
        • Forgiveness Sunday. -Bp. Mikhail (Semyonov)
        • About Cheesefare Sunday
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 8. Cheesefare Sunday
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 7. Saturday of Cheesefare Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 6. Friday of Cheesefare Week.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 5. Wednesday of Cheesefare.
        • Homily on Forgiveness Sunday. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
      • Category: Meatfare
        • About the Sunday of the Dread Judgment
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 4. Sunday of Meatfare.
        • Homily for Meatfare Sunday on the Dread Judgment. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 3. Sunday of Meatfare
      • Category: Prodigal Son
        • About the Sunday of the Prodigal Son
        • Homily on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 2. Sunday of the Prodigal Son
      • Category: Publican and Pharisee
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 1. Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee.
    • Category: Holy Week
      • On the Days of Holy Week. -Bp. Mikhail (Semyonov)
      • Category: Entry Into Jerusalem
        • On Palm Sunday. -Bp. Mikhail (Semyonov)
        • Homily for the Feast of the Lord’s Entry into Jerusalem. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 59. Triumphal Entry.
        • The Lord’s Entry into Jerusalem
      • Category: Great Friday
        • A Homily on the Cemetery and on the Cross of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ. -St. John the Golden-mouth
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 65. Great and Holy Friday.
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 64. Holy and Great Friday.
        • About Friday of Passion Week
      • Category: Great Monday
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 60. Holy and Great Monday.
        • About Monday of Passion Week
      • Category: Great Saturday
        • Word on Great Saturday. St. Epiphani of Cyprus
        • Word on Great Saturday. St. Amphilochi of Iconium
        • Homily XVI. On Great and Holy Saturday. -St. Gregory Palamas
        • Homily for Great Saturday. -Met. Korniliy (Titov). 2025
        • Homily for Great Saturday. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 66. Great and Holy Saturday.
        • Apology for the Liturgy of Great Saturday. -Neminuschy
        • About Saturday of Passion Week
      • Category: Great Thursday
        • Discourses on the Betrayal of Judas. -St. John the Golden-mouth
        • Homily on Great Thursday. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
        • On the Washing of Feet. (Homily 70). -St. John the Golden-mouth
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 63. Holy and Great Thursday.
        • About Thursday of Passion Week
      • Category: Great Tuesday
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 61. Holy and Great Tuesday.
        • About Tuesday of Passion Week
      • Category: Great Wednesday
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 62. Holy and Great Wednesday.
        • About Wednesday of Passion Week
      • Category: Lazarus Saturday
        • Homily for the Saturday of the Resurrection of Righteous Lazarus. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
        • Homily 2 on Lazarus of the Four Days. -Isichiy of Jerusalem
        • Homily 1 on Lazarus of the Four Days. -Isichiy of Jerusalem
        • Lazarus Saturday
    • Category: Pascha
      • About Bright Week
      • Who Determines the Date of Pascha in the Orthodox Churches? And How Is It Calculated?
      • The Miracle of the Resurrection. -Bp. Mikhail (Semyonov)
      • On Pascha. -St. Theodore the Studite
      • On Holy Pascha. -St. Kirill of Turov
      • Homily on Pascha. -St. Leo, Pope of Rome
      • Homily for Pascha. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
      • Christ Resurrected! -Bp. Mikhail (Semyonov)
      • About the Radiant Resurrection of Christ
      • Category: 1st Ecumenical Council
        • Homily on the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the 1st Ecumenical Council. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 75. Seventh Sunday of Pascha.
      • Category: Ascension
        • Homily for the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 74. Thursday of the Sixth Week. Ascension.
        • The Ascension of the Lord
      • Category: Blind Man
        • Homily on the Sunday of the Blind Man. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 73. Sixth Sunday of Pascha.
        • Sunday of the Blind Man
      • Category: Midfeast of Pentecost
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 71. Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Pascha
        • Midfeast of Pentecost
      • Category: Myrrh-Bearing Women
        • Homily on the Taking Down of the Body of Christ from the Cross. -St. Kirill of Turov
        • Homily on the Sunday of the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 69. Third Sunday of Pascha.
        • The Sunday of the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women
      • Category: Paralytic
        • Homily for the Sunday of the Paralytic. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 70. Fourth Sunday of Pascha
        • Sunday of the Paralytic
      • Category: Samaritan Woman
        • Homily for the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 72. Fifth Sunday of Pascha.
        • The Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
      • Category: Thomas Sunday
        • Homily on Thomas Sunday – Met. Korniliy (Titov)
        • About the Sunday of Thomas
    • Category: Pentecost
      • Homily for Pentecost, the Day of the Holy Trinity. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
      • Golden-mouth. Homily 78. On Pentecost Monday: A Teaching of St. John Chrysostom Concerning the Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Holy Disciples and Apostles of Christ
      • Golden-mouth. Homily 77. On Pentecost Sunday, a Teaching of St. John Chrysostom
      • Golden-mouth. Homily 76. On Pentecost Saturday, a Teaching of St. John Chrysostom: That One Should Not Weep Excessively for the Dead
      • Category: 2nd Sunday
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 17. Monday of the Second Week.
        • Homily for the Second Sunday after Pentecost. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
        • Homily 80. On the Second Sunday, after the Commemoration of All Saints, A Teaching of St. John Chrysostom
      • Category: 3rd Sunday
        • Homily for the Third Sunday after Pentecost. Met. Korniliy (Titov)
      • Category: All Saints
        • Homily for the Sunday of All Saints. -Met. Korniliy (Titov)
        • About the Sunday of All Saints
        • Golden-mouth. Homily 79. On the First Sunday after Pentecost, A Teaching of St. John Chrysostom in Commemoration of All Saints
• Category: Old Believers
  • Old Belief and the Traditions of Popular Rule. -Isaev
  • Are there saints among the Old Believers after the Schism?
  • The Schism of the Orthodox Church. -Ryabushinsky
  • “Old Believers”: The History and Adequacy of the Term
  • What, then, is the essence of our faith? – On “holy” lestovkas, prayer books, and sarafans — what truly matters in our faith?
  • What Is Old Belief? -F.E. Melnikov
  • What is Old Belief. -V. Bochenkov
  • The Beginnings of Old Believer Thought. -V. Senatov
  • Prostrations as a Remedy for Stiff-neckedness. By V.V. Buzhinsky
  • On Old Believer Missionary Work. -M.A. Dzubenko
  • What advice can be given to an adult who wants to join Christ’s Church and receive true baptism, but whose close relatives oppose it, accuse them of fanaticism, and try to pull them out of the Christian community as if it were a sect?
  • Why can there be only one true Church?
  • Who are the Old Believers?
  • Category: Belokrinitsa Hierarchy
    • The Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church
    • The Church: The Meaning of Her Being and the Necessity of Life within Her. By Bishop Mikhail (Semyonov)
    • The Church of Christ Temporarily Without a Bishop. By Innokenty (Usov)
    • Can salvation only be attained in the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church (РПСЦ)?
    • Could Metropolitan Ambrose have been received into the Church not as a bishop but as a priest, since the Bible states that “the lesser is blessed by the greater”?
    • Why is the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church (RPSC) the true Church of Christ, and not the New Rite Church? After all, many call Old Believers schismatics.
    • A Brief History of the Old Orthodox (Old Believer) Church. -F.E. Melnikov
    • Russian Old Belief: Traditions, History, and Culture. -Dimitry Urushev
    • Justification of the Old Believer Church. -St. Arseny Uralsky
    • In Defense of the Old Believer Hierarchy.
  • Category: Biographies & Authors
    • Category: Biographies
      • How I Became a Populist Socialist. -Bp. Mikhail (Semyonov)
      • Nikifor Dmitrievich Zenin
      • Bishop Kir Mikhail of Canada
  • Category: General History
    • Orthodoxy in 17th-Century Rus’: A Brief Historical and Cultural Overview. -R. Atorin
    • The Messianic Background of the Schism
    • On the Trials of the 20th Century
    • What is the meaning of the concept “Moscow is the Third Rome, and a fourth there shall not be”? Are Russians somehow special or better than others?
    • Category: Sobornost
      • Old Belief and the Great Schism: An Experience of Sobornost under the “Kingdom of Caesar”
      • A Word on Sobornost
  • Category: Priestless
    • Category: Spasovtsy
      • Debate Between Konovalov and Antipin: On the Reception of Heretics and On Division
      • Order of Renouncing Heresy (Small Beginning)
      • Dogmatic Foundations of the Spasov Concord of the Great Beginning.
  • Category: School & Children's Material
    • To Understand the Words of Wisdom: Lessons from the Old Testament in Sunday School
    • The Holy Gospel Retold for Children
    • The Law of God. Karabinovich Edition.
    • Law of God. For Young Children.
    • On Children’s Confession
• Category: Prayers
  • Canon to the Venerable Serapion of Cheremshan
  • Canon to the Holy Hieromartyr and Confessor Pavel, Bishop of Kolomna
  • Morning and Evening Prayers
  • Prayers at Meals
• Category: Resources
  • The Study of the History of the Early Christian Community Based on Apostolic Texts (Epistles)
  • The Tale of the Novgorodian White Klobuk
  • Category: Iconography
    • Russian Icons and Spirituality. -Ryabushinsky
    • What Icons are Canonical?
    • Byzantine Traditions in Old Russian Art. -R. Atorin
  • Category: Interviews
    • Interview: Fr. Vadim Korovin – In Search of Truth, He Found Faith
  • Category: Patristic Writings
    • Homily for Antipascha, or the New Week after Pascha. -St. Kirill of Turov
    • Category: Orations
      • Oration 43: Funeral Oration for Basil, Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia. By St. Gregory the Theologian
  • Category: Science
    • Reflections of a Physicist on the Mystery of the Creation of the Universe
    • An Apologetic Story-Reflection: “Oparin, Go Deeper!” -Neminuschy
• Category: Sacraments
  • On the Holy Mysteries. -Bishop Mikhail (Semyonov)
  • The Sacraments of the Church
  • Category: Baptism
    • The Mystery of Baptism
    • Why is proper baptism performed by full immersion? What should you do if you don’t know how you were baptized?
    • On Dangers Faced After Joining the Church
  • Category: Communion
    • On the Order of Canons for Holy Communion
    • How often can and should one partake of the Holy Mysteries? How should one prepare for Holy Communion?
  • Category: Confession
    • Where and How Confession Is Performed
    • The Sacrament of Repentance
    • The Mystery of Repentance
    • Instruction Before Confession
    • Epitimia
    • The Mystery of Repentance. Archpriest Evgeny Chunin
  • Category: Crowning
    • The Sacrament of Marriage
    • Instruction to the Newlyweds
    • The History and Meaning of the Rite of Crowning
    • Dissolution of Church Marriage
    • Days When the Sacrament of Crowning Is Not Performed
    • What are the grounds for divorce, and how is it handled in Old Believer tradition?
  • Category: Ordination
    • Priest – The Second Degree of Holy Orders
    • The Mystery of Priesthood
    • The Laying On of Hands (Ordination) of a Priest
    • Khirothesia
    • Bishop – The First Degree of Priesthood
    • Ordination to the Diaconate
  • Category: Unction
    • The Mystery of Holy Unction (Soborovanie)
• Category: Scripture
  • What does the common phrase “The Lord visited someone” mean
  • Do we have the same Holy Scripture as the Nikonians, Catholics, and Protestants? What are canonical and non-canonical books?
  • Living Water. -Bishop Mikhail Semyonov
  • The Canon of the Books of Holy Scripture: The History of Translation into the Russian Language
  • Which books of the Bible would you recommend to a newly baptized Christian? How should one study Holy Scripture? Which commentaries by the Holy Fathers are useful?
  • Category: New Testament
    • Commentary on the Four Gospels. -St. Ephrem the Syrian
  • Category: Old Testament
    • A Word on Pascha (Passover). -Aphrahat the Persian
    • Category: Exodus
      • Second Book of Moses. Exodus. -St. Ephraim the Syrian
    • Category: Genesis
      • Commentary on the First Book of Moses: Genesis. -St. Ephrem the Syrian
• Category: Uncategorized

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